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[fazza8]

I've tried using goldwave to sort out lipsynch and it seems brill. What I can't seem to do is work out the timings to adjust it. It takes so long to try it out and then you need to start all over again if it's not right and I don't seem to be very good at judging it. Is there anything that helps with this process...like Spock or someone?

[johneboy]

I've tried using goldwave to sort out lipsynch and it seems brill. What I can't seem to do is work out the timings to adjust it. It takes so long to try it out and then you need to start all over again if it's not right and I don't seem to be very good at judging it. Is there anything that helps with this process...like Spock or someone?

I have never really had a problem with goldwave when doing this..
i load the audio file in goldwave...
open the video file in WMP
and hit play on both at the same time..
then you hit pause/play quickly on which ever (sound or audio) is faster
then when both audio, and video are in sync.. take note to the difference in seconds.
Everytime i have done it, the audio has been slightly behind the video
so i see by how many seconds, then add silence to the beginning of the audio file. then hit play on both again.. see if it sync's up.. if it does, then i save the audio file.

[BJ_M]

its easy to do it in soundforge where you can have both the audio and video together on a time line showing frames -- soundforge opens mpeg1 and 2 files and any avi file and any stream'd files ...

you can even do the same thing in ACID or Vegas Video or Blade or really almost any video editing app ...

[fazza8]

Where can I get hold of soundforge? Is it prohibitively expensive?

(Thanks Johneboy I'm giving that a go)

[fazza8]

Thanks BJ_M for the soundforge tip. I've downloaded it. Could you give me some more info on how to do it? If one is numb as a piss stone and 10 is Marconi, I'm about a 4.

[BJ_M]

drag your clip into the time line and drag your audio into the time line and make them match ..

you have to have the sound forge main concept decoder installed i think

when you import a mpeg - it will tell you ..

avi files are no problem ..